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Speaker 1: live in Ohio. What's up everybody? Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Draymond Green Show. We have a great Top of the
Speaker 1: show today. A few things going on around the NBA.
Speaker 1: UM our win yesterday versus the Thunder was a good
Speaker 1: win for us. I think that's our first time winning
Speaker 1: back to back road games. They said this year UM
Speaker 1: winning four out of the last six games and the
Speaker 1: two week last week gift wrap to team. But we'll
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Speaker 1: Warriors roll win over the thunder that moves Like I said,
Speaker 1: that's for all the six for the Doves, that moves
Speaker 1: us into fifth Wow, fifth place in the West. After
Speaker 1: all of that, let's not get our hopes up too high.
Speaker 1: As we all know. Uh, the difference between fifth and eleven,
Speaker 1: it's like one game. Um, maybe eleven is an exaggeration,
Speaker 1: but you get the point. So it's important that we
Speaker 1: continue to put these wins wins together. But I thought
Speaker 1: last night and okay, see, we got off to a
Speaker 1: really great story. I was looking at I saw something
Speaker 1: interesting on the box score yesterday. Okay, see one the second,
Speaker 1: third and fourth quarter, I'll be one of them. Is
Speaker 1: like by a point and blah blah whatever. They won
Speaker 1: the first, second, and third quarter. But we got off
Speaker 1: to such a great start. Um, I thought in that
Speaker 1: first quarter, especially like we had the ball humming. Defensively,
Speaker 1: we were locked in UM. Offensively, the ball all was
Speaker 1: just flowing. We were getting out in transition because we
Speaker 1: were getting stops. We weren't failing UM and they struggled
Speaker 1: to keep up with the speed a bit. I thought
Speaker 1: it was very interesting. Uh, their coach didn't call many
Speaker 1: time out and tried to run with us. I knew
Speaker 1: that would change when at the end of the first quarter.
Speaker 1: I looked down at their bench. Now, shout out the
Speaker 1: young feller. He's having an incredible year. All Star will
Speaker 1: being All Star as we all know, shout out the
Speaker 1: young fellow. Shake. I looked down at their bench at
Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter and she was down
Speaker 1: there like this. Now he had both hands stretched back
Speaker 1: like this, and I said, whoa, They're gonna keep trying
Speaker 1: to play at this pace. I also thought it was
Speaker 1: interesting because they have been starting um you know, as
Speaker 1: you know, they have to Jalen Williams on their team.
Speaker 1: They have been starting both Jalen Williams, and they took
Speaker 1: the bigger Jalen Williams out of the the big man
Speaker 1: and they started small. Now, me and Luna always had
Speaker 1: this running joke about all these guards in the NBA,
Speaker 1: and I was no more bigger man. So Luna and
Speaker 1: I laughed about that, but I thought it was interesting
Speaker 1: because what they were pretty much saying was that they
Speaker 1: were going to match speed for speed, and they actually
Speaker 1: fair better when the bigger Jalen Williams was on the floor.
Speaker 1: He shot. He shot the bar really well last night too,
Speaker 1: But it was just interesting to see the theory. Like
Speaker 1: most teams usually go bigger, they tried to match small,
Speaker 1: and I felt like if they would have kept if
Speaker 1: they would have kept matching us up small like trying
Speaker 1: to match small groups. I thought we were about to
Speaker 1: run them out to the gym and beat him by forty,
Speaker 1: but they're switched. They switched their game plan, and you know,
Speaker 1: Shake got going. I think we we had we had
Speaker 1: him bottled up really well in the first quarter, had
Speaker 1: a couple of buckeers there in the second quarter. They
Speaker 1: kind of got him going, and then he finished the
Speaker 1: game with thirty one, pretty much right around his average
Speaker 1: on the year. But man, I was really impressed with
Speaker 1: the development. You know, we've all been watching Shade developed
Speaker 1: at this race since pretty much since his rookie year.
Speaker 1: I remember playing him in the playoff series with the
Speaker 1: Clippers before he got traded for Paul Jordan and Paul
Speaker 1: George trade. And he's been improving. But I was really
Speaker 1: impressed with improvement of improvement of Josh Giddy last year.
Speaker 1: When Josh Giddy first came into the league, he was
Speaker 1: really really a past first guy and still passed first,
Speaker 1: still looking to set up the guys up. But it's
Speaker 1: like that he's he's gotten that floater down, Like if
Speaker 1: I'm watching the game mid ranges and and floaters, he's
Speaker 1: he's gotten that shot down. And at six six or
Speaker 1: six seven, for him to have like getting to be
Speaker 1: able to get into the lane and shoot that float
Speaker 1: to consistency, like consistently like he's been doing, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be dangerous, um because what that will mean is if
Speaker 1: he can continue to do that, you have a guy
Speaker 1: in shape and him who can get to their spot
Speaker 1: and get to the shot they want to get to
Speaker 1: at will. Which as you continue to build that team out,
Speaker 1: let's not forget they got Chat at home, Goring on
Speaker 1: the bench. Uh as Chat comes in and get his
Speaker 1: feet wet, and you know, obviously he still got to
Speaker 1: become the player that everyone I think you are, which
Speaker 1: I don't doubt that he will. Um, just the raw
Speaker 1: skill that he has at that size, I think it's
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. Josh can really get everyone else involved. So
Speaker 1: you still have a traditional point guard in a sense
Speaker 1: that will come down not even think about his shot
Speaker 1: at all, get everyone else involved. But that ability to
Speaker 1: get to that shot when you can't get everyone else involved,
Speaker 1: that's going to be very critical. And as his career
Speaker 1: goes on, even if he just plays the traditional point
Speaker 1: guard and get others involved and never go shot first.
Speaker 1: Here with with having that, he'll average somewhere between fourteen
Speaker 1: and eighteen points a game. That's without even having a
Speaker 1: score first mindset. He can do that. Now he continues
Speaker 1: to get better, that shot continues to get better, and
Speaker 1: it can be even more so I think you know that. Okay,
Speaker 1: see team and what they're doing, UM, it can get interesting.
Speaker 1: It could get very interesting. And then as you know,
Speaker 1: they have some young guys like um Jane who we
Speaker 1: really can't even tell yet if they're gonna pan out
Speaker 1: or not, so say they do, Um, you can get interesting.
Speaker 1: So I that was you know, I really I enjoy
Speaker 1: playing against those eyes last night. You you continue to
Speaker 1: see their growth. Uh, they're writing the thicket things. You know,
Speaker 1: I spoke about the game apart or you know, they're
Speaker 1: writing the thicket things in the playoff Hunt, which I
Speaker 1: think is absolutely amazing, So very fun game to play
Speaker 1: in last night. Like I said, I thought our start
Speaker 1: was great. Uh, and the way we closed the game
Speaker 1: out was great. Obviously they have made the run, they
Speaker 1: cut the leader to possibly even tying the game up,
Speaker 1: and you know we made our run, pushed it back
Speaker 1: out to eight. And once we pushed it to eight, um,
Speaker 1: you know that was kind of rapping and they couldn't
Speaker 1: get back in after that. But death fun game and
Speaker 1: a much needed win for us. Uh. Put two in
Speaker 1: a row. You know, twing a road together on the
Speaker 1: road is big now and saying that to start this
Speaker 1: road trip too. And oh with a win tomorrow and
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Speaker 1: You know, and and looking ahead to the Minnesota game,
Speaker 1: obviously they're still without Kyle Anthony Towns. Anthony Edwards is
Speaker 1: having an incredible season and since Carl Towns has been out,
Speaker 1: he's really picked up his scoring. Uh, he's picked up
Speaker 1: his aggressiveness. And you know, it's it's very interesting because
Speaker 1: it's almost as if the paint was claused when Cat
Speaker 1: was playing, and obviously they have Rudy. It's almost as
Speaker 1: if the paint was clauded. But as we all know,
Speaker 1: call shoot the light side of the ball. But where
Speaker 1: it gets interesting is the spacing because the four usually
Speaker 1: it's in the trail spot, right like the four isn't
Speaker 1: especially not caring any times. Most of his threees come
Speaker 1: from above a break and so he's not really in
Speaker 1: the corner. He's always in the trail spot. And what
Speaker 1: that does for driving angles, for like even if you
Speaker 1: have to honor called towns, if you have to honor
Speaker 1: call towns and and maybe not help as much, it
Speaker 1: still clogs it up a little bit and put someone
Speaker 1: in gaps and takes away some of the driving angles.
Speaker 1: So to see that now there's only one traditional big
Speaker 1: out there with Rudy and a slursh And I also
Speaker 1: think when Rudy miss some games, a cat was playing
Speaker 1: and was first. And it's an interesting take because my
Speaker 1: first take when when the trade happened with Rudy was
Speaker 1: that you're going to traditional bigs and you have a
Speaker 1: very dominant guard young number one pick kind of showing
Speaker 1: you he's ready to take the rain and putting them
Speaker 1: out there with two traditional bigs, what's that gonna do
Speaker 1: for his driving lane? And so it's been interesting just
Speaker 1: to see that dynamic on. Like whichever big has been,
Speaker 1: he's been more aggressive and being able to get more
Speaker 1: into the paint, and so that's gonna be something to
Speaker 1: reckon with. We have not played this group yet with
Speaker 1: only one big, so it will be interesting to see,
Speaker 1: um the difference in Anthony Edwards as opposed to the
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards that we saw at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: year when we won here in Minnesota. UH, looking forward
Speaker 1: to that button saying that, as always say, we come out,
Speaker 1: we take care of our business, we play Warriors basketball.
Speaker 1: I have no doubt in my mind that will be
Speaker 1: successful and not. Now for a little bit of your
Speaker 1: NBA controversy this week. UM, it came out the other
Speaker 1: day that Memphis UH bookkeeper stack keeper, it's under fire
Speaker 1: for padding Jaren Jackson JRS Stats. That's interesting. The reason
Speaker 1: that's interesting is because number one, UM, if you don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean, we we live it every night. Apparently I
Speaker 1: needed to get seven and a half points last night.
Speaker 1: I only got seven. How do I know that? Because
Speaker 1: people talk so crazy on here at social media when
Speaker 1: they bet and they don't successfully um, when they don't
Speaker 1: successfully complete their bets, like oh it's Draymond, you suck
Speaker 1: you only have seven points. But it's like, actually, you
Speaker 1: suck at betting because just like I only had seven
Speaker 1: points and it was seven and a half, you could
Speaker 1: have very well chose under seven and a half and
Speaker 1: you chose seven and a half over. Does that make
Speaker 1: me dumb and sorry? Or does that make you dumb
Speaker 1: and sorry? You're Betty, because you actually made that decision.
Speaker 1: So I think more so you should credit Vegas for
Speaker 1: putting the line right there, and like fut yourself because
Speaker 1: you chose to over like you can't. People are notorious
Speaker 1: at Gallen like pointing the finger to someone else. Like, hey,
Speaker 1: you had a choice. The choice was very simple. I
Speaker 1: think Raymond is gonna score eight points. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna score seven points regardless of what I scored. You
Speaker 1: made that decision, so you're actually bad at what you do.
Speaker 1: Like just because I score seven points doesn't actually make
Speaker 1: me bad at what I do. It makes you bad
Speaker 1: at what you do because you lost your money. You
Speaker 1: can't get mad at me. Anyway, back to what I
Speaker 1: was speaking about in the first place, which is the
Speaker 1: Jaren Jackson stats being padded. Number one, let's say this
Speaker 1: super happy for Jared. That's my young fellow, that's my
Speaker 1: young spartan all. I'm always rooting for him. So do
Speaker 1: I think his stats are padded? I don't watch all
Speaker 1: of their games. I can't say if they are not.
Speaker 1: But what I do know is Jared is a hell
Speaker 1: of a defender. Um the majority of his stats are blocks,
Speaker 1: and Jared gets a lot of blocks. As I've said
Speaker 1: on this podcast before, one of my problems with Jared
Speaker 1: is he goes for every block, and being as great
Speaker 1: a defender as he is, he doesn't have to go
Speaker 1: for every block. So if I see a game where
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh man, Jared's has a lot of blocks,
Speaker 1: that's very realistic because he goes after a lot of
Speaker 1: blocks and he's very i mean much more than capable
Speaker 1: of getting a ton of blocks. That's a skill that
Speaker 1: he has. So I can't sit here and say, oh man,
Speaker 1: his stats are padded. But the reason that's interesting is
Speaker 1: because number one, you think, um, when when you're speaking
Speaker 1: of defensive player, of your votings and all of those things.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, blocks and stuff matters, which is crazy, and
Speaker 1: you know it's just like points, Like you know, people
Speaker 1: will see, all, man, this guy has seventeen points. That
Speaker 1: that guy may be playing awful and may not be
Speaker 1: helping that team at all and maybe getting garbage points,
Speaker 1: but if they see they have seventeen points, it's like,
Speaker 1: oh man, that's great. People look at defense like, oh
Speaker 1: look at that he has such such blocks and such
Speaker 1: such steals. That doesn't necessarily mean this guy was good defensively,
Speaker 1: not saying Jaren, just sending in general, stats don't always
Speaker 1: tell the story. I've had games this year while I've
Speaker 1: completely locked down the defense side of the ball, anchored
Speaker 1: the defense very well, and had one still in zero blocks.
Speaker 1: Now where we're calling the question is if I really
Speaker 1: only have one steal and really has zero blocks. But
Speaker 1: in saying that, that is what's on the stat sheet,
Speaker 1: and I know what I did on this game defensively,
Speaker 1: But voters they look at those things like you look
Speaker 1: at Rudy Gobert. He won like what three defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the years because of blocks, And you know, it
Speaker 1: matters to people. You know, it really matters to people
Speaker 1: the stats that someone has, And so it's interesting from
Speaker 1: there back to the betting, it's very interesting from a
Speaker 1: betting standpoint, because one of one block or one steal
Speaker 1: or something like that can really change people, the outcomes
Speaker 1: of people nights. In some cases, it can change the
Speaker 1: outcomes and people lives. And you know, when you think
Speaker 1: about the money that people have betting on these FanDuel
Speaker 1: sites and hot streaks and all of these other things,
Speaker 1: it's really like it really matters. Now, I personally I've
Speaker 1: noticed all year that like I'll get it still, I'll
Speaker 1: knocked the ball away. And so for instance, if I
Speaker 1: if somebody comes down the lane and I knocked the
Speaker 1: ball away right and one of my teammates go pick
Speaker 1: it up, that's my still. Or I've noticed it on rebounds,
Speaker 1: like I'll go out for a rebounding like I'll just
Speaker 1: tap the ball to one of my teammates instead of grabbing,
Speaker 1: I'll just tap it to my teammates start break, and
Speaker 1: like I would look up and I didn't get the rebound.
Speaker 1: And all year I hadn't really said anything. I'll just
Speaker 1: like kind of let it go or whatever. My mom
Speaker 1: has said something to me for like for a while
Speaker 1: about this, like they're not calling your stats. And also
Speaker 1: my guy Charlie, who watches defense like a hawk um
Speaker 1: and always watch things, he always says it as well.
Speaker 1: And so when this came out, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I should acknowledge this because the reality is
Speaker 1: to say that I'm only iris and zero point eight
Speaker 1: blocks and zero point seven steals or something like that,
Speaker 1: like I know that's not accurate. That that's not accurate
Speaker 1: at all. And so um, yeah, the NBA has to
Speaker 1: do something about this stat this, this, this that thing. UM,
Speaker 1: I would like the credit for my rebounds and credit
Speaker 1: for my blocks. I'd be interesting to know if somebody
Speaker 1: went back and counted up all the blocks that I have,
Speaker 1: all the steals that I've had that didn't get credit
Speaker 1: for all the rebounds that I've had. What what would
Speaker 1: that actually come out to. UM, I'd be interested in in. Like,
Speaker 1: for instance, last night, UM, I had two blocks. Somehow
Speaker 1: I finished the game with zero blocks, and it's just
Speaker 1: like yo, like two steals and two blocks in the game.
Speaker 1: That's pretty impressive. Like I would like my two blocks,
Speaker 1: so um, Like I said, And what you're starting to
Speaker 1: see is also it's like I remember our old bookkeeper.
Speaker 1: His name is fred Cats. Uh, he retired. He was incredible.
Speaker 1: What you're also starting to see is like a new
Speaker 1: wave of stack keepers bookkeepers coming into the game, and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, they're not as experienced as the fred Cats
Speaker 1: of the world, and so like maybe they just got
Speaker 1: to get up to speed and realize that hey, man,
Speaker 1: if this guy knocked the ball the way that's his,
Speaker 1: that's not someone else's. Or if he tapped that rebound
Speaker 1: to somebody control tip that is his rebound, that's not
Speaker 1: someone else's because quite inky. Um, I really, like I said,
Speaker 1: I haven't really said anything about it all year because
Speaker 1: I just kind of go on by my day. But
Speaker 1: it does matter. Um, it matters in a major way.
Speaker 1: So someone need to get that right. Not quite saying
Speaker 1: the Miller's bookkeeper was or was or was not padding stats.
Speaker 1: I I can't just throw um allegations on there out
Speaker 1: there like that on people. UM's it's a stiff allegation.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna throw it out there. But I
Speaker 1: do know I've been missing some stats, and I just
Speaker 1: kindly like to ask if someone can help me out
Speaker 1: here and just make sure I give my stats. I
Speaker 1: very much appreciated because I'm missing some stats here and
Speaker 1: like I said, they do matter. So if y'all can
Speaker 1: see to that, that'd be great. However, that's a rap.
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